The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-04
IN THE GREAT WEST.
Scenes and incidents Of Travel Ill Kansas
and Colorado.

oVOp-OfCl CuCCh III my IHA'"SH
ticket and stopped at Kit Carson,
nearly midway the eastern part of
Colorado. l wanted to get one
view of genuine western life, and l
assure you | got it.
/ found s. town OF about twenty
five inhabitants with two saloons,
two stores, postoffice, land Of
fee, magistrates office, hotel, Il
bank and two newspapers, one OF
the papers, however, being run in
the country mile off on the pro-
prietor's claim. You will be sur
prised at the above enumeration
but these westerners have a way of
their own of making a town. This
country is entirely new and the
town was begun in April last. l
preached Sunday in the magistrates
office, q room 10xl4, to about %
persons. This was the first ser
mon ever preached in the town.
They have no church. Indeed there
is not church for $50 miles east
and west by 100 miles north and
south. The country around is un
broken prairie as far as the eye can
reach. / took a ride for miles upon
the prairie and saw prairie dogs and
jack rabbits in abundance. | also
saw three wolves-two of them were
small, called coyotes, but one was
very large mountain wolf. He
had come down from the mountains
to catch calves which arc plentiful
on the prairie as large herds of cat
tie are grazing. He ran from US, q
thing he need not have troubled
himself to do had he known some
things as well as we did. But We
enjoyed bis retreat very much
| Wild horses are frequently seen
This country was formerly consid-
cred worthless and was part of tht
o-called Great American Desert
but it turned out that the land wat
very productive and valuable and i:
now being rapidly settled up.
left on the o'clock train Mondal
morning for Denver.
At Denver / had half day. Thi
| call the most beautiful city l eve
saw, while Kansas City is The mos
thriving and growing. They clain
$4,000 population, while Kansa
City claims 10000. Colorado /
not such a country as Kansas.
1 4 ,,,lr Il 10 Tim q ot
in the Union | have yet seen, and
think l have seen it pretty well, 70
in addition to the detOurs l mad
into the state while st Kansas City
which included several cities ant
towns (of which l wrote you in N
prohibition letter. l have gon
] through the entire length Of til
state, distance of 400 miles cas-
and west, and it is uniformly beau
tlful and productive. BY The way
| want TO add here that during tia
400 miles ride through the state {
Kansas passed scores Of town
and cities and conversed with
great many Kansas people at til
stations and on the train, and
kept & close lockout and | will hel
say that have yet seen at an
time single man in Kansas drum
or who | thought had WHISKY !,
him. ! haye never seen or bee
able to hear of an open saloon i
the state. | have never been ADJ
to find q man or woman, old {
young, who deemed that the pro
hibitlon law was not well enforce
in the state. They looked amaze
) when you ask them the question
On the other hand, 1 have see
whisky and men drinking it an
some drunk from it in towns an
cities and on railroad trains in hi
souri, and Colorado. l saw yestes
day aiman lying on the ground nee
, the railroad, as we passed, to
!, drunk to sit up. There was an oil
!, drunken lrishman who came dow
on our train from Denver. He keI
4 his bottle in the car window b
, him from which he frequent
drank. He was sitting in the Sc;
, next the water cooler, and his Sc;
i was turned so that he faced b
I friend who was travelling with hi
and he also faced the balance OF ii
III passengers. The bishop and d
s Collins sat in seat opposite
{ him, while Brown and | occupie
: seats half way down the car on Il
. side behind the Bishop and facin
5 the Irishman. The old fellow g
S pretty booty, and spying BroE wi
sat next 10 me he said: "Say, tn.
n man with a black cap on, faith al
| must spake to HIM and he stas
4 gered on down and told Brown /
d favored the pope. He said he ha
h seen the pope and Brown W.
4 enough like him to be the pop
Q We succeeded in persuading HI
i that Brown was not the pope AZ
:. he then insisted that Brown was ii
q man he saw in the army fghtir
@ under "McM ahony" in the Franc
\ Prussian war. Brown said, "yt
,r mean Mcmahon" "No, sir; NJ,
e Mahony. l saw you with Il
k throops, you know" Brown d
II not-prove as cordial and commuf
II cative as he hoped, and be refuse
q his hand, and the freshman mat
+, | his way back to the water coolt
q Ia drawing a cup of water the ca
Il gave Il lurch and the old man
70 forehead bumped smack against Il
" water cooler. Then he deliberate
: and voluntarily turned his hea
N goat like, little TO one side, al
a butted the cooler vehemently SIEVE
is al times to the amusement of t
fv crowd. Whether this was to co
/ vince the crowd that the first br
10 was not accidental, or whether
NJ was the best means at his commal
a for kicking himself for underta
o. ing an interview with Brown a.
to being so quietly shaken Off by
D. popish locking friend, we could n
q determine.
in FROM Denver here, a distance
ne l25 miles, we sweep along the 70
to hills of the Rocky Mountains, pat
t. ing Palmer Lake, Colorado Sprin,
or and in sight of Pixies Peak.
.e these points L will speak in futu
III as we take them in on our W
,e back from Las Vegas to Salt La
EitYr nnYt uank I'hn RncI-io- 4